The Warclaw

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I take it I'm not the only one planning to dye it green with red armour (which will have to wait until we have skins for it, but I doubt that will take long).

Pretty certain you wont be

What sleep is here? What dreams there are in the unctuous coiling of the snakes mortal shuffling. weapon in my hand. My hand the arcing deathblow at the end of all things. The horror. The horror. I embrace it. . .

@Aeolus.3615 said:
Golems are in fact a mount that players need to built, not every mount must ment "race car". :}

I hope Claw comes with restriction like for the commander only for example.
Issue is will would see a sea of tags just for people to use and find a gimmick way to abuse...

You don't need that to see a sea of tags. Just have a group of people looking to goof off for a while and start a parade in WvW and say to put up your tag as part of it.

What i ment is Claw usage needs to be limited, alot of players have comander tags, i bet most would buy a tag just for a new claw meta zerg since theres no suplly for sure needed to pull gates with it.. imgine 60-80 players w/o siege suply just call mount cap n leave... from structure to structure....

Yes, I'm aware what you meant. T'was a joke. That being said, don't think of the mount like traditional siege as it won't work that way. Depending on the effectiveness of the mount on doors it will either make current siege at towers and keeps vestigial or the new meta will be blow up the kitty pile then address siege that gets thrown down. Ultimately I don't think there will be a multiplicative effect of the mounts on a door. they will probably cap it at 3-5 at most then anything above and beyond having no effect.

@kharmin.7683 said:@Danikat.8537 There was speculation in the WvW forum that it might be gated behind a catmander tag

That would be interesting, and kind of appropriate. But I'm not sure that would fit the description of it being available exclusively through WvW. The only WvW requirements for the catmander tag are 250 badges of honour (which you can get from achievement chests) and getting to the Catmander, which can potentially be done without encountering a single enemy player (especially if you do it in your home borderlands).

I'd expect it to at least have at least a rank requirement and probably to cost skirmish tickets or memories of battle (although they can be bought from the TP) as well. (Although I'm hoping if there is a rank requirement it's not too high, I'm only rank 148 at the moment.)

"You can run like a river, Till you end up in the sea,
And you run till night is black, And keep on going in your dreams,
And you know all the long while, It's the journey that you seek,
It's the miles of moving forward, With the wind beneath your wings."

The bait-strategy works horribly. It will attract a lot of people for a very short time. The servers will be flooded with achievement-hunters and PVE peasants (like me), who have neither a clue or an interest in WvWvW at all. The queues stack up to hilarious lengths and frustrate the active and (still) loyal WvWvW community.

If you want to increase activity in WvWvW, upgrade the outdated system, get rid of the annoying Homeworlds and let us enjoy epic fights together with our guilds and friends.

@HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:
The bait-strategy works horribly. It will attract a lot of people for a very short time. The servers will be flooded with achievement-hunters and PVE peasants (like me), who have neither a clue or an interest in WvWvW at all. The queues stack up to hilarious lengths and frustrate the active and (still) loyal WvWvW community.

If you want to increase activity in WvWvW, upgrade the outdated system, get rid of the annoying Homeworlds and let us enjoy epic fights together with our guilds and friends.

But fights make lag and people notice how broken the game can be... here take mounts and ... links where players fight against empty worlds at a time.(each own has its own timezone to play)

@HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:
The bait-strategy works horribly. It will attract a lot of people for a very short time. The servers will be flooded with achievement-hunters and PVE peasants (like me), who have neither a clue or an interest in WvWvW at all. The queues stack up to hilarious lengths and frustrate the active and (still) loyal WvWvW community.

If you want to increase activity in WvWvW, upgrade the outdated system, get rid of the annoying Homeworlds and let us enjoy epic fights together with our guilds and friends.

I'm sure a lot of people will do that, but some might come just to get the mount and end up staying. I originally tried WvW because I wanted to get the mini dolyak - back when it was a reward for completing the meta-achievement in the first WvW Season and that got me into it. Admittedly I'm not a regular WvW player and I definitely spend more time in PvE but I play it a lot more than I would have if I'd never had that incentive to go in.

"You can run like a river, Till you end up in the sea,
And you run till night is black, And keep on going in your dreams,
And you know all the long while, It's the journey that you seek,
It's the miles of moving forward, With the wind beneath your wings."

@HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:
The bait-strategy works horribly. It will attract a lot of people for a very short time. The servers will be flooded with achievement-hunters and PVE peasants (like me), who have neither a clue or an interest in WvWvW at all. The queues stack up to hilarious lengths and frustrate the active and (still) loyal WvWvW community.

If you want to increase activity in WvWvW, upgrade the outdated system, get rid of the annoying Homeworlds and let us enjoy epic fights together with our guilds and friends.

I'm sure a lot of people will do that, but some might come just to get the mount and end up staying. I originally tried WvW because I wanted to get the mini dolyak - back when it was a reward for completing the meta-achievement in the first WvW Season and that got me into it. Admittedly I'm not a regular WvW player and I definitely spend more time in PvE but I play it a lot more than I would have if I'd never had that incentive to go in.

And originally i only played WvW to get map complete and to me that was the best way to do it because you have to become an active participant on all the maps to do this so you get pulled into playing it and learning it as you go. Now they just keep adding things to earn and usually it doesn't take too much effort to even do that, so most go into it, get their doo-dad by flipping the closest camp over and over then bounce.

@OutOfOrder.3719 said:
This sounds fantastic. I remember when gliding was added to WvW and how much more fun the game mode became from one simple addition.

I remember when no one wanted gliding so anet added it and had to redesign EB since they failed to realize had broke it was lol. there are still places where gliding breaks the map, NE BL tower for example (unless they changed it, been a while since ive wvw'ed). the maps aren't designed with gliding in mind, and im willing to bet this sort of thing will happen with mounts as well, although probably not as bad.

Just asking, as it did say "exclusively through wvw"
Not to come of as rude, but we have a bit of a superfluous topic problem on the forums

Not sure who you were aiming the statement to, but the source is the arricle i linked further down the thread

What sleep is here? What dreams there are in the unctuous coiling of the snakes mortal shuffling. weapon in my hand. My hand the arcing deathblow at the end of all things. The horror. The horror. I embrace it. . .

I have mixed feelings about this. I think that the raptor without attack ability would have been sufficient for WvW so that it just increases movement speed. I think releasing a mount with attack and like abilities may cause issues in WvW. Once this mount is released it's not like they will take it back even if it causes long term issues with the game play.

Just asking, as it did say "exclusively through wvw"
Not to come of as rude, but we have a bit of a superfluous topic problem on the forums

Not sure who you were aiming the statement to, but the source is the arricle i linked further down the thread

At op, when they made the statement.
Whenever people talk about content i always assume they refer to the official statement and not any third party speculations unless stated in the head topic.
But never mind it now, this is derailed enough as is.

To defeat the dragons, see the good in them.
Zhaitan reunites lost ones, primordus creates fertile land, mordremoth spreads the green, and jormag..
..jormag? Who's that?

Honestly, I'll be glad if it is WvW only. It looks really neat, but we already have 6 mounts outside of WvW with tons of skins and more skins to come. Functionally and aesthetically, there is no need for another mount outside WvW. By contrast, there are no mounts inside WvW, and as it stands, the current 6 mounts can't be added in without messing things up pretty badly. Creating a WvW-only mount is a good idea.

@Tekoneiric.6817 said:
I have mixed feelings about this. I think that the raptor without attack ability would have been sufficient for WvW so that it just increases movement speed. I think releasing a mount with attack and like abilities may cause issues in WvW. Once this mount is released it's not like they will take it back even if it causes long term issues with the game play.

I assume that's why they made a new mount instead of simply enabling the existing ones. Since this one is custom made for WvW and all its abilities will be designed to be used in WvW hopefully they will also be balanced* for WvW so it won't cause the same kind of problems as the other mounts would. It certainly doesn't look like we're going to be able to leap over walls on it.

*Obligatory disclaimer - as much as anything in GW2 is balanced, however good or bad you consider that to be.

I'm sure it will change things in WvW, but personally I don't see that as a bad thing since one of the main complaints I see about GW2 is that PvP modes are 'forgotten' or abandoned and have been stuck doing the same thing for 6 years. I don't even play WvW that often and I'll be happy to see some new tactics come into play.

"You can run like a river, Till you end up in the sea,
And you run till night is black, And keep on going in your dreams,
And you know all the long while, It's the journey that you seek,
It's the miles of moving forward, With the wind beneath your wings."

@Dragon Priestess.9760 said:
An interview said yes. You can use it in PvE maps. It's just that you gotta do WvW to get the mount first.

The important bit though is, would you want to? Raptor has speed and tail swipe, Jackal has ports, etc. What good would a mount be if all it did was run fast (while looking awesome) outside of RP time? Not saying that is a bad thing mind you, just want to make sure people keep in mind that you'll likely want to use other mounts for your day to day stuff.

@Dragon Priestess.9760 said:
An interview said yes. You can use it in PvE maps. It's just that you gotta do WvW to get the mount first.

The important bit though is, would you want to? Raptor has speed and tail swipe, Jackal has ports, etc. What good would a mount be if all it did was run fast (while looking awesome) outside of RP time? Not saying that is a bad thing mind you, just want to make sure people keep in mind that you'll likely want to use other mounts for your day to day stuff.

Well, I know for sure I'll be using it more than the roller beetle. To me, appearance is more important than function. I only care about looking pretty - and I'm sure there are many who feel the same way. So it'll be worth it.

@Dragon Priestess.9760 said:
An interview said yes. You can use it in PvE maps. It's just that you gotta do WvW to get the mount first.

The important bit though is, would you want to? Raptor has speed and tail swipe, Jackal has ports, etc. What good would a mount be if all it did was run fast (while looking awesome) outside of RP time? Not saying that is a bad thing mind you, just want to make sure people keep in mind that you'll likely want to use other mounts for your day to day stuff.

Well, I know for sure I'll be using it more than the roller beetle. To me, appearance is more important than function. I only care about looking pretty - and I'm sure there are many who feel the same way. So it'll be worth it.

Agreed, this is already my new favorite in appearance. I'll use function when I need to. When I want to say, "look how awesome I am" I'll be mounting up with my big cat!

The next time you get angry at someone try walking a mile in their shoes. After that, who cares! You're a mile away and you have their shoes! -Someone with more awesome quotes than me

@HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:
The bait-strategy works horribly. It will attract a lot of people for a very short time. The servers will be flooded with achievement-hunters and PVE peasants (like me), who have neither a clue or an interest in WvWvW at all. The queues stack up to hilarious lengths and frustrate the active and (still) loyal WvWvW community.

If you want to increase activity in WvWvW, upgrade the outdated system, get rid of the annoying Homeworlds and let us enjoy epic fights together with our guilds and friends.

Please Anet, if you really want what's good for WvWvW, please lock this mount behind some ridiculously high rank like platinum rank. That way PvErs who want it must actually stay for awhile to get it(and will ultimately be forged through the fire or burned), and those who don't intend to stay will be quickly scared off.

@HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:
The bait-strategy works horribly. It will attract a lot of people for a very short time. The servers will be flooded with achievement-hunters and PVE peasants (like me), who have neither a clue or an interest in WvWvW at all. The queues stack up to hilarious lengths and frustrate the active and (still) loyal WvWvW community.

If you want to increase activity in WvWvW, upgrade the outdated system, get rid of the annoying Homeworlds and let us enjoy epic fights together with our guilds and friends.

Please Anet, if you really want what's good for WvWvW, please lock this mount behind some ridiculously high rank like platinum rank. That way PvErs who want it must actually stay for awhile to get it(and will ultimately be forged through the fire or burned), and those who don't intend to stay will be quickly scared off.

@Dragon Priestess.9760 said:
An interview said yes. You can use it in PvE maps. It's just that you gotta do WvW to get the mount first.

The important bit though is, would you want to? Raptor has speed and tail swipe, Jackal has ports, etc. What good would a mount be if all it did was run fast (while looking awesome) outside of RP time? Not saying that is a bad thing mind you, just want to make sure people keep in mind that you'll likely want to use other mounts for your day to day stuff.

Well, I know for sure I'll be using it more than the roller beetle. To me, appearance is more important than function. I only care about looking pretty - and I'm sure there are many who feel the same way. So it'll be worth it.

Same here. I rarely touch 4/6 mounts outside their niche movement abilities and never pick them based on their engage skill (minus the springer if there's a CC bar). Does it move at least as fast as the griffon running? If yes the Warclaw will be my primary mount. Not just because it's cool looking but because most of my characters are charr so look oversized on other mounts.

@HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:
The bait-strategy works horribly. It will attract a lot of people for a very short time. The servers will be flooded with achievement-hunters and PVE peasants (like me), who have neither a clue or an interest in WvWvW at all. The queues stack up to hilarious lengths and frustrate the active and (still) loyal WvWvW community.

If you want to increase activity in WvWvW, upgrade the outdated system, get rid of the annoying Homeworlds and let us enjoy epic fights together with our guilds and friends.

Please Anet, if you really want what's good for WvWvW, please lock this mount behind some ridiculously high rank like platinum rank. That way PvErs who want it must actually stay for awhile to get it(and will ultimately be forged through the fire or burned), and those who don't intend to stay will be quickly scared off.

Oh, wait, you're serious? They are bleeding cash right now and you want them to shoot themselves in the foot by limiting this revenue stream from their most casual of whales?

I was one of their most casual of whales spending $300-$700 a month not this Christmas but last Christmas I bought 1000 keys or 84,000 gems in keys "coz I was bored." Guess who swam away coz of decisions like this and others. But yeah OK.